Nick shook his head: “I’m talking about the Honored Prince.”
The female Inspector: “……”
Nick turned his head and said in the aftermath: “Oh, the Admiral. He’s also pretty good looking.”
The female Inspector: “???”
— Vigorous, energetic youths were always so capricious.
“Actually…… the Honored Prince’s father, Angeli, is the true male god.” A blush appeared on the face of the 40+ years female Inspector: “In comparison, Sirius and Nalun are clearly both too juvenile.”
Nick looked at her in bewilderment. The youth, who was a generation behind, knew very little of the previous era.
“Angeli-daren was a legend of the Imperial Capital a few decades ago. He only had one wife in his life, who’s the current Emperor’s aunt. I remember when Madam Charvey passed away due to illness, the Honored Prince Nalun was still only a child.”
Mentioning her childhood idol, that stern female Inspector gained a light in the depths of her eyes. The demeanor of a youthful girl can be seen faintly in her.
She patiently gave him an update of events and then became melancholic.
“I can faintly see Angeli-daren’s shadow in him.”
She then curved her lips and smiled: “Really quite a beautiful child.”
Nick: “……”
The male Inspector coughed and stopped his two colleagues’ increasingly straying conversation. He did his best to give a fair evaluation to the unforeseen event just now: “Looks like the discord between the two people is open to discussion…… the Admiral seems to be very close to the Honored Prince.”
The female Inspector nodded her head: “That’s right. This is quite unexpected.”
As Sirius’s head fanboy, Nick had even more speaking rights.
“From what I remember, the Admiral and the Honored Prince weren’t on friendly terms.” Nick said with concern: “On the contrary, they constantly butt heads?”
Citizens far away might be unclear about this. However, Nick, who lived in the Imperial Capital, still managed to hear some rumors and gossip.
The female Inspector said profoundly: “Unfortunately we weren’t able to ask this question personally during the cross-examination.”
“Nick, go follow them quietly.” A faint light shone in the male Inspector’s eyes: “Allowing the suspect of a major crime to be taken away, even if that person is the Admiral, is still risky.”
After a long time passed, he discovered that he didn’t receive any reply and furrowed his brows: “Nick?”
“Oh oh, I’m here!” The freckled man recovered from his thoughts, a vacant expression on his face as he held a pile of files.
Why was it that he felt the view of the two people leaving harmoniously looked more and more familiar?
“Don’t daze off while you’re working.” The male Inspector said coldly: “I can empathize with your excitement of seeing your idol. However, in order to see the Admiral at LuoRi Volcano last time, you skipped an entire day of work. I still have your letter of reflection. Do I need to take it out and have you read it?”
The freckled Nick shook and trembled, expressing: “Sir…… I’m sorry, I, I was wrong.”
Still traumatized by the 10 thousand words of reflection, Nick was instantly terrified deathly pale upon receiving this abrupt reminder.
The man had a severe expression.
Nick trembled all over.
To the side, the female Inspector interrupted the atmosphere in amusement: “Stupid Nick, your boss is giving you a task so you can chase your idol in an open and official manner for work. What are you still waiting for? Hurry up and go?”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
Stunned, Nick looked into his boss’s deep eyes. Instantly, he understood the other’s thoughtfulness and flushed red emotionally.
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The voice behind him was filled with disappointment!
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And then he stood on tiptoes to lower the noise and charged out quietly.
The boss: “???” Suddenly feeling a bit of regret, what to do.
Outside of the courthouse.
When the familiar R ranked sports car, which belonged to the Admiral, slowly drove over, Nalun shut off the personal comp with a loud ‘pa’. Then, under Sirius’s ‘fervent’ gaze, Nalun sat reserved into the passenger seat.
This time the Admiral didn’t thoughtfully change the speed to the highest gear for him. Instead, he selected a medium low speed, looking almost like he planned to have a slow and leisure journey.
“Go where?”
Nalun thought briefly and said: “A drive around the Imperial Capital.”
Sirius didn’t ask anymore and turned to set up the route.
“Here you go.” Nalun handed the warmed personal comp back over.
Sirius accepted the personal comp. After he examined it for a few seconds, he laughed out loud.
Nalun immediately shot a sideways glance over: “What’s so funny?”
Sirius didn’t answer. He lowered his voice and read out loud: “Even though dawn appears after the dark of the night, days without you are always the pitch-black night, without stars, without moonlight……”
His deep low voice was like trickling water, murmuring next to Nalun’s ear.
Nalun coughed and interrupted the Admiral’s recitation: “I also didn’t know what to write. This is someone’s poem.”
Sirius looked at him silently.
Nalun asked: “Not good enough?”
The Honored Prince, who’s never written such sappy words like ‘I miss you’, actually wasn’t very good at this. Therefore, he can only rely on the all-purposeful personal comp to randomly find an excerpt.
Sirius shook his head: “No, it’s very good. I like it very much.”
Nalun: “……”
Nalun’s eyes twitched: “Don’t look at me. Watch the road.”
Sirius turned his head. However, he didn’t look at the road either. Instead, he lowered his head and clicked ‘send’ in satisfaction.
“Will he like it?”
Nalun turned his head to appreciate the scenery outside of the car: “Some people enjoy elegant and refined poems. Some people would feel this kind of stuff pale and deficient, without any worth.”
Sirius gave an ‘en’ and said: “He should like it.”
–The tips of his ears were already red.
With bright red ears, a certain Honored Prince continued to maintain his tranquil and composed expression. However, his insides were extremely complicated: This kind of feeling, like he just teamed up with his enemy to screw himself over, was really…… not good.
“Don’t you find it strange? Mist Bug……” Sirius pointed at the contact info in his personal comp: “That’s a creature from the Insect planet. The three mouthed bug from last night… was also a Mist Bug”
The black haired Admiral adjusted in his seat, expression turning unfathomable and hard to decipher. He slowly leaned next to Nalun’s ear and whispered in a lowered voice: “Perhaps I’m actually the one who’s colluding with Insectoids?”
Nalun: “……” This thought was really very novel and audacious.
Sirius asked: “You don’t seem shocked at all.”
Nalun gave him a glance, expression turning grave.
“This is a display of my trust towards you. No need to test my sincerity!”
Sirius: “……”
The corner of his mouth twitched as he silently sat back in his seat.
After Sirius finished sending his message and planned to put away the personal comp, a message jumped out. He said: “Yesterday night, the Prey Team won the competition.”
The moment Nalun heard this news, his face fell: “Oh, is that right?”
Sirius continued to say: “I hear you have the highest points of your team.”
Nalun: “……”
Won…… the person with the highest points……
What did this signify?
His mood instantly hit rock bottom.
Such a rare opportunity to control Sirius, gone just like this?
Just because of an unexpected accident, he lost the desired spoils of war?
He expended such effort and energy towards this, yet it became a joke just like this?
Everything has become useless, an illusion!
Sirius, curiously: “If the accident didn’t occur last night, what kind of request would you have made last night?”
Nalun said: “It’s already impossible to achieve. There’s no point in mentioning it.”
“Actually–” Sirius suddenly said: “If it’s possible, I can help you achieve some small requests.”
Nalun with profound eyes: “…….” No, you can’t.
Sirius said: “If you don’t say it, how do you know I can’t do it.”
–Because…… ai.
Nalun closed his eyes, very exhausted: “It’s better to just leave me be.”
His tone was extremely tragic and sorrowful.
He curled up in his seat, entire body almost enveloped in a layer of heavy black fog.
Sirius gently consoled him, attempting to help this Honored Prince, who sank into a strange anguish, recover himself.
However, Nalun remained unmoved, his entire person sinking into a downcasted mood, looking completely dispirited and listless.
In the end, the Admiral abandoned the words of comfort and used his hand to pat Nalun on the shoulder, silently transferring strength to him.
When the car stopped and Sirius announced ‘we’ve arrived’, Nalun was still immersed in the silent, speechless state.
Verdant vegetation, dark colored dirt and rocks. The familiar view of LuoRi Volcano’s entrance appeared in front of Nalun. Aside from the Princess’s birthday banquet, this was the location where the entire tragedy made a pivotal turn.
–Thus, it left an especially deep impression on him.
“Why come here?”
Sirius said: “Discussing things under a comfortable environment can save half the work.”
He led Nalun onto a small road. After a few turns, a hidden little door appeared before them.
The scenery in the surrounding area was very familiar. After entering the small door and passing through a long corridor, the memories in Nalun’s head came running back abruptly.
“…..The onsen clubhouse?”
Sirius said: “En, which kind of bath bomb do you like? AiJia grass, or vine?”
Nalun: “……” No, he had no interest in either.
As they spoke, the two people arrived at the room that Sirius was in last time. Seeing the prepared bath towel and steaming osen inside, Nalun felt enveloped in a heavy scheme.
He said coldly: “I’m not used to bathing during the day.”
Sirius enticed him, saying: “Why not give it a try?”
Nalun said: “No.”
A sigh spilt out of the Admiral’s mouth.
After a while, Sirius refused to give up: “Did you wash before sleeping last night?”
Nalun didn’t even blink: “It was too late. Probably not.”
The Honored Prince, who had severe mysophobia, scoffed repeatedly internally–
Ah, think he’d yield just with this?
Up to no good!
Sirius examined him for a while. Verifying the other’s steadfast willpower, he once again sighed in regret.
“Then eat a bit of fruit?”
Nalun: “???” Why did the topic change so sharply? He had already prepared a series of excuses to decline tactfully!
Sirius turned around and pulled out a plate of fruits from a certain corner: “Ah, the fruit provided today is sour lemons.”
Nalun said decisively: “No thanks.” Toothache.
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thanks for the chapter!
Aiya, Sirius, I expected a lot more from you. You definitely know everything, how come you’re still doing everything possible to make him unhappy? I know it’s fun, but do you really want to suffer a cold war when everything ends? sigh